Hahn v. Russ’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2016
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Holiday Inns of America, Inc. v. Peck · City of Whittier v. Whittier Fuel & Marine Corp. · 14 Wash. App. 946 - Rhoades v. DeRosier · Clabaugh v. Bottcher
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e have held that `[o]ne should expect sudden stops in heavy traffic, especially when it has recently been stop-and-go' and that to rear-end a car under these circumstances constitutes negligence as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Plutt · Bettner v. Boring“"[Oln review of motions for directed verdict or for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, [our role] is not to weigh conflicting evidence or judge the credibility of witnesses, but is rather to determine whether the evidence, when viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, is such that reasonable [jurors] could not differ in their judgment."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Veys v. Applequist
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.